Monday, May 26, 2014

VIDEO: Pope Francis Departure Ceremony From Israel

Jerusalem, Israel --- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Monday, 26 May 2014), at the memorial to victims of terrorism on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem, made the following remarks to Pope Francis:

"When my son was ten years old, his best friend was a girl, a beautiful
Ethiopian girl, who sat next to him in class. One day she didn’t come.
She was blown up in a bus not far from here because there was no fence,
no security wall.

I’m grateful for your words today. Israel wants peace. Here we have a
hospital, Hadassah Hospital. Palestinians come to this hospital. With
the wall, they come. We cannot go to their hospitals, they come to our
hospitals. We don’t teach our children to plant bombs. We teach them
peace. But we have to build a security wall against those who teach the other
side. But it cannot prevent the incitement to hate and terror and the
destruction of Israel that permeates so much of the society on the other
side of the fence. If that changes, then the walls could come down and
we will have peace."